Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052766
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052766
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleford-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 53040 93703
Details
APPLEFORD CHURCH STREET SU59SW (North side) 4/2 Church of St. Peter and St. 09/02/66 Paul
GV II
Church. Romanesque origins; C13 chancel; nave rebuilt by Ewan Christian c.1880; tower by W. Sillbee Scott c.1885. Squared stone in random courses, with ashlar stone dressings; C19. plain-tile roofs to nave and chancel; stone spire to tower. 4-bay nave, 2-bay chancel and west tower plan. Early,C20 porch to right of centre of nave; having coursed squared stone plinth, with timber-framed upper portion; gabled plain-tile roof. Double plank doors to 4-centred archway. Plank inner door to round-arched doorway. C19 round-headed lancet to left of centre of nave. C19 cusped lancet to left. C19 two-light Perpendicular tracery window to right of nave with possibly re-sited hood-mould. Blocked 2-centred arched doorway to left of centre of chancel. Single-light stone transomed window to left of chancel with bottom light blocked. C15 paired lancet to right. Single lancet to east end of chancel. Rear: blocked round-arched doorway to left of centre of nave, having moulded imposts. C19 two-light Reticulated tracery windows to left of nave, and to right of centre. C19 cusped lancet to right. Vestry forms cat-slide addition to chancel at left with plank door to left and lancet to left return. 3stage west tower with spire, angle buttresses. Cusped lancets to each side of first and second stages. 2-light louvred Geometrical tracery openings to third stage. Square spire with half-hipped lucarnes with Geometrical tracery openings. Interior not inspected but reputed to have early C18 altar rail. (Buildings of England: Berkshire: l975, p65) '
Listing NGR: SU5304093703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251305
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 65
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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